This also doesn't address the new traffic flow on Fourth and Capitol and Sixth, a big disruption to the downtown grid that will NOT make some commuter users of I-30 happy when they find a new route to, say, Riverdale

- Max today

So ..... Let's talk about removing the exit ramp there and talk again about the mall. Let's close La Harpe, too, at Clinton Avenue to make the River Market a pedestrian friendlier zone. Let's close La Harpe all the way to State, in fact, and expand the Riverfront Park into that space. Yes, a new entrance to the downtown grid would have to be devised. Sixth Street is one possibility. Or maybe made the entrance from I-630.

Hey AOAT - that "building on Third St" isn't occupied by Acxiom anymore. It was bought by Simmons Bank over a year ago. Acxiom's remaining LR operations already moved to Main Street in much smaller space. The bulk of Acxiom's Arkansas employees are in WLR (at a data center) and Conway.

Yeah, if you completely ignore the fact that in addition to the existing through-lanes passing over Clinton Ave, you also have the exit ramp that you have to walk under. Combined, it's a total of 170 feet according to Google Earth measurements. If you count the cloverleaf exit ramps that you have to walk past which will be replaced with flat park land (as clearly illustrated in your pic above), the actual impact of the interstate on Clinton Ave as it currently exists stretches about 950 feet. As pictured above, it's only 230 feet of impact. that leaves 720 linear feet for park land that stretches about 650 feet wide between Clinton and 3rd. So roughly 468,000 square feet of new park space in the River Market in that spot, alone (10.74 acres).

Then you take away an additional 3 blocks worth of off-ramp stretching between 2nd and 3rd. That's 1000 feet long from Sherman to Cumberland. It's 90 feet wide as you walk under it at River Market Ave, and the total right-of-way appears to be closer to 160 feet wide. So add another 160,000 square feet (about 3.7 acres) of park land.

Everything pictured above in green is currently elevated concrete and will be torn down and replaced with flat grade-level park land. And you think this has a negative impact on downtown?

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